Maybe I need to relisten, but I thought he said he hadn't seen it? I recall a moment where Aukerman asked if Mooney was playing the titular bear and Mooney seeming slightly annoyed at the question.

According to a recent episode of the Waypoint podcast, he has a Masters in Philosophy. He was working on a PHD on the same subject (I believe) when he dropped out to take the job at Waypoint. He's an interesting dude!

Archivist here. This is a really big deal in the archives world these days, because in the late 90s and early 2000s the standard archival advice was "scan it and put it on CD-R!". It was cheap and manufacturers claimed it would last at least a century, so why not?

No kidding. Why would that even be in the dictionary?

Understanding isn't the same thing as sympathy, though. I know that if I lived on the Steppes in the 1200s I probably would have been down with murdering and raping half the world's population, but that doesn't mean I have to sympathize with Genghis Khan.

Seriously. Also, The Apprentice has been on hiatus for a year, American Idol finished up in April, and America's Next Top Model was canceled months ago.

I'm in library school now, and using Wikipedia as a starting point for real research is a pretty common recommendation. If you are starting from absolute zero subject matter knowledge its pretty handy for sketching in the broad strokes, and clicking through to to the cited references can give you a start in gathering…